I will come up ... - Better: If I were to go up for one moment in your midst, I would consume you.

That I may know ... -<…

If God consented at all to renew His covenant with the people, after they had so flagrantly broken it, the terms on which He would renew it were, i…

For the Lord had said to Moses
At the same time he had told it to the people:

Those whom God pardons, must be made to know what their sin deserved. “Let them go forward as they are”; this was very expre ive of God's displeasu…